arch-arm: inform bootloader of kernel position with a register
Before the commit, the bootloader had a hardcoded entry point that it would jump to. However, the Linux kernel arm64 v5.8 forced us to change the kernel entry point because the required memory alignment has changed at: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/ commit/?h=v5.8&id=cfa7ede20f133cc81cef01dc3a516dda3a9721ee Therefore the only way to have a single bootloader that boots both pre-v5.8 and post-v5.8 kernels is to pass that information from gem5 to the bootloader, which we do in this patch via registers. This approach was already used by the 32-bit bootloader, which passed that value via r3, and we try to use the same register x3 in 64-bit. Since we are now passing this information, the this patch also removes the hardcoding of DTB and cpu-release-addr, and also passes those values via registers. We store the cpu-release-addr in x5 as that value appears to have a function similar to flags_addr, which is used only in 32-bit arm and gets stored in r5. This commit renames atags_addr to dtb_addr, since both are mutually exclusive, and serve a similar purpose, DTB being the newer recommended approach. Similarly, flags_addr is renamed to cpu_release_addr, and it is moved from ArmSystem into ArmFsWorkload, since it is not an intrinsic system property, and should be together with dtb_addr instead. Before this commit, flags_addr was being set from FSConfig.py and configs/example/arm/devices.py to self.realview.realview_io.pio_addr + 0x30. This commit moves that logic into RealView.py instead, and sets the flags address 8 bytes before the start of the DTB address. JIRA: https://gem5.atlassian.net/browse/GEM5-787 Change-Id: If70bea9690be04b84e6040e256a9b03e46710e10 Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/35076 Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
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@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ from common.SysPaths import binary, disk
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class ArmBaremetal(ArmFsWorkload):
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""" Baremetal workload """
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atags_addr = 0
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dtb_addr = 0
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def __init__(self, obj, system, **kwargs):
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super(ArmBaremetal, self).__init__(**kwargs)
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@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ class ArmTrustedFirmware(ArmFsWorkload):
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https://github.com/ARM-software/arm-trusted-firmware
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"""
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atags_addr = 0
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dtb_addr = 0
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def __init__(self, obj, system, **kwargs):
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super(ArmTrustedFirmware, self).__init__(**kwargs)
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